Additional Upgrade Procedures and Information

Instead, use the new two-phase deployment protocol APIs and tools described in the WebLogic Server 7.0 documentation.

„The WebLogic jDriver for Microsoft SQL Server is deprecated and will be removed from a future release of WebLogic Server. BEA recommends that you use the JDBC driver available from Microsoft to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database. See “Installing and Using the SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC from Microsoft” in Programming WebLogic JDBC at http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs70/jdbc/thirdparty.html#sqlserver.

„The WebLogic Keystore provider is deprecated in WebLogic Server 7.0 SP1.

„weblogic.management.tools.WebAppComponentRefreshTool and weblogic.refresh are both deprecated in this release of WebLogic Server 7.0. They have been replaced by weblogic.Deployer.

„WebLogic JDBC t3 Driver. See Deprecation of WebLogic File Services at http://bt04/stage/wls/docs70/file/filesrvc.html#1028649.

„If you did programmatic deployment or used the weblogic.Admin command in order to create application and component MBeans, set the attributes on the MBeans, and invoke operations on those MBeans to cause them to get deployed in the system, the following MBean attributes and operations have been deprecated:

Deprecated ApplicationMBean operations:

deploy

load

undeploy

Deprecated ApplicationMBean attributes:

LastModified

LoadError

isDeployed

Please refer to the WebLogic Server 7.0 javadocs for the ApplicationMBean interface to see what has replaced these attributes and operations.

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7 specifications

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